LONDON – In mid-May, a prototype wave energy converter weighing 38 tons arrived in Orkney, an archipelago in the waters north of mainland Scotland. Later that summer, the bright yellow, 20-meter-long kit – called the Blue X – will be shipped to one of the test sites at the European Ocean Energy Center for its…

With two major cultural events last weekend, the international art scene signaled that it does not intend to have Covid cancel another year. Held May 19-23, Art Basel Hong Kong marked the return of one of the most revered art fairs in the world. The show followed Frieze New York, which happened earlier this month…

SINGAPORE — Malaysia’s daily Covid-19 cases are climbing rapidly and have surpassed India’s on one critical measure, according to statistics site Our World in Data. India has been experiencing a devastating second wave since April and has the world’s second largest Covid caseload. The country’s daily case count, while trending downward, has remained elevated at…

Trade Minister Gina Raimondo on Tuesday expressed confidence in the efforts of the Biden government to increase semiconductor manufacturing in the United States In an interview with CNBC’s Mad Money, Raimondo said the global chip scarcity that has rocked a number of industries shows the need for America to increase domestic manufacturing capacity and become…

Investors should take advantage of market pullbacks in the near-term, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday, suggesting there’s a range of positive catalysts that will propel stocks higher. “The stock market runs on cycles. When you have this many running at once, the averages tend to be pretty darn resilient,” the “Mad Money” host said, shortly…

Landing of an airplane of the airline Aeromexico La Laguna at Mexico City International Airport. Gerrardo Vieyra | NurPhoto | Getty Images The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday it had downgraded its flight safety rating for Mexico and banned that country’s airlines from operating in the United States The decision is causing new headaches for…

Cora and Stefan Miller started a hair care company after they had their son, Kade, and struggled to find hair products for him. Young King Hair Care is now sold by Walmart and Target. When Cora Miller had her son, she discovered the baby had a full head of hair — and found few products…

A United Airlines Holdings Inc. employee helps a traveler at a ticket counter for Hawaii at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Summer vacations are getting more and more expensive as travelers return from the long pandemic lull.…

The Disruptor 50 list’s mission has always been to identify fast-growing, innovative startups en route to the next generation of large publicly traded companies. But in 2020 it got ridiculous. Twelve of the 50 companies named the 2020 Disruptor 50 are now publicly traded companies. Four more have announced that they will go public through…

The U.S. should play a bigger role in getting to the bottom of the theory that Covid-19 first leaked from a virology lab in Wuhan, China, Atlantic Council senior fellow Jamie Metzl told CNBC on Monday. “Right now the World Health Assembly is meeting and the United States should do everything possible with our allies…